Migrating CentOS VM’s from Xen to Proxmox

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In the day job, I’m in the process of migrating the VM estate from an aging collection of Xen hosts to Proxmox. All of the VM’s are CentOS (v5 to v7, with a couple of v4!) with a mixture of bare partitions and LVM-based installs. TBH, the last time I had to deal with Xen […]

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Automatically Updating Ubuntu/Debian with Ansible and Zabbix

TL;DR All scripts/playbooks/files mentioned are collected together in the GitHub repo https://github.com/gadg3ts/ansible-zabbix-updates This does also assume you have already set up Zabbix and Ansible for your environment. Unless you want to do things manually… Background If you’re anything like me, then your “Home Lab” is likely to contain enough physical/virtual hosts to require some form of […]

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ClockworkPi GameShell front view of assembled device

The ClockworkPi GameShell open-source handheld console

I first read about the ClockworkPi GameShell back when it was a Kickstarter project. In short, it’s a handheld retro gaming device that runs (Debian) Linux and looks like a chunky GameBoy. However, the difference between the GameShell and its Nintendo inspiration, is that this device is fully open-source for both software and hardware. Their […]

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Fixing Cannot load XPCOM for nightingale on Ubuntu 10.04

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Basically it can’t find the xulrunner libraries running the ‘nightingale’ script as: strace -vv -ff sh -vex nightingale –debug 2>&1 showed me it was looking for libxul.so and failing finding that: smeacher@pandora:~/bin/Nightingale$ dpkg -S libxul.so thunderbird: /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so xulrunner-1.9.2-dev: /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.28/sdk/lib/libxul.so xulrunner-1.9.2: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.28/libxul.so So then add that path to that looked for via ldconfig (where to load/search […]

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‘Tip of the day’, for most of this week

I had this plan for doing a tip of the day, as I have this week come across some small but useful things to share with the world. So here they are on the Saturday. Tuesday: In Windows 7, Right-click on a scrollbar and it’ll give you a context menu. Then you can press ‘T’ […]

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mbox2maildir & dovecot

I tried a test yesterday of converting my inbox on the gb server to Maildir (preparation for migrating all the mailboxes) and it would appear that the debian dovecot then decides to use that created maildir as it’s default location. I was wondering where all my other folders had disappeared to, then I noticed that […]

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